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Re-Post: What are Your Favorite Anecdotes for Chronic Pain?
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@loriesco Thank you. Yes, I am aware of the two ways of deadening the nerve. I have also heard of Intrasept ablation, which seems superior to the old RFA procedures. I do plan to ask my pain management person about all of this when the time comes. Thankfully I believe I have a good person to perform these procedures. He did his residency at Yale and then an additional fellowship in anesthesiology (and whatever) at Cleveland Clinic, which I'm told is useful for doctors who do these minimally invasive procedures.
Appreciate your help.
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@jackiet I looked it up and it’s not superior — It’s used for a different purpose. I have degenerative disc disease and problems with my facet joints, stenosis, and discs shrinking and herniating. The Inracept method deals with vertebrae nerves. It’s different from the RFA I had to treat the pain of the nerve roots exiting my spine through the facet joint stenosis,; Intracept (BVN) treats a different condition. Thank you though for sharing! I always like to keep up on procedures. You can read about the differences in this great article:
https://www.hss.edu/health-library/conditions-and-treatments/intracept-procedure-basivertebral-nerve-ablation.
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@jackiet make sure you’ve seen an orthopedic surgeon for your lumbar spine. They take a simple x-ray and a good orthopedic surgeon will tell you if your discs are falling out of place. I had an amazingly successful lumbar surgery with all the bells and whistles. Unfortunately, everybody waited too long to get me to the orthopedic surgeon. After 20 years, my discs fell completely out, the bones grafted together and it squished the life out of the exiting nerve roots so they couldn’t regenerate after surgery. People put an Oogie boogie on surgery, but if they wait too long and they don’t have a good orthopedic surgeon they may not be able to fully heal.